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Did This Mysterious Female Hacker Help Crack the DNC?

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Alisa Shevchenko is a ‘self-taught,’ relatively unknown player in Russia’s hacker scene. Why did the Obama administration target her, of all people, for sanctions?

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The U.S. sanctioned a couple of well-known crooks and handful of Russian government intelligence officers Thursday in retaliation for the Russian government’s interference in America’s elections and diplomacy.

Barely noticed on the sanctions list was the young, relatively-unknown female hacker whose company the U.S.

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